Vetoing overturning a ban on undoing gayness. First quadruple negative for 2025 for me.
It took me longer than I’d like to admit to figure out that this was in fact a good thing.
MAGA has a hardon for cruelty.
Conversion therapy for minors
Why spend money on therapy? Just wait until they are 18, then they won’t be minors anymore! Unless it was a typo of miners, then yes, they need all the retraining they can get because coal mining is going away and nothing can stop it.
THAT’S MY GOVERNOR
I think people paying attention to national politics but not necessarily state level stuff don’t realize just how impressive Andy Beshear has been. In 2024, Trump won Kentucky 65% to 34%, more than 30-point lead. In 2020, Trump won the state 62% to 36%.
And through that, during the Trump era, he has campaigned on unabashedly progressive policy positions (marriage equality, abortion, universal pre-k, renewable energy and EV production, legalizing marijuana), and won statewide elections in 2015, 2019, and 2023.
In many ways, the 2023 win was the most impressive, because that was when the Democrat brand was getting dragged down, and incumbents in that era tended to have a bit of a post-covid drop in the polling numbers.
People like Andy are who we need in politics: unafraid to vote his conscience, and using that charisma and voice to bring the public along to support those things.
he’s done a masterful job of framing issues that the (very) conservative commonwealth can accept without outright rejecting.
and believe it or not, he wasn’t my first choice to be gov in 2019. I thought he was too centrist.
Do we really need more depressed gay moms and dads? The true end goal of sexual identity ostracism is a population bump, but is this even the best way to create one in the age of in vitro and cloning? Just seems small minded, in addition to bigoted
It’s not just that. Demonizing minorities creates a boogie man fascists can point to and say “This the terror that only I can save you from”, and scare dipshits into becoming their followers.
